Three Word Story

[JP Dogberry]

In the Vein of Word Sense, but more fun. Basically the goal is to write a story, contributing only three words at a time. So, a sentence requires maybe three posts or so.
Although, in this game, sentences get very long and lose any grammatical sense.

The rules:
No double posting.
No posting back and forth two people mroe than three times.
Every post must be part of the story.
Have fun.
Don't use this to boost your post count, or rather, don't make it obvious that that's why this thread exists.

So, to start:

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Once Upon a...

[Peter Ahlstrom]

piece of paper,

[EUOL]

there was a

[JP Dogberry]

line drawing of

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

a stick figure.

[EUOL]

It was alive.

[JP Dogberry]

"It has Worked!"

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Screamed the mad

[House of Mustard]

scientist, before he

[Brenna]

crumpled to the

[House of Mustard]

high-gloss tile

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

carefully color-measured

do hyphenated words like that count as one or two?

[House of Mustard]

by literature majors

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

overworked and underpaid

[42]

chicken on strike.